{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Francis Fukuyama with Shadi Hamid: In the Realm of the Last Man","description":"What did Francis Fukuyama mean when he declared that the world had reached \u201cthe end of history\u201d \u2014 and does he still believe it? One of the most consequential conservative political thinkers of our time, best known for his international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and for his work advising the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Francis Fukuyama has spent decades shaping the way policymakers, scholars, and everyday citizens think about power and the fate of liberal democracy. Now, with In the Realm of the Last Man, he offers a strikingly personal new intellectual memoir and a reflection on the ideas and policies he\u2019s reconsidered \u2014 a life story that doubles as a history of liberalism and political disillusionment over the last 50 years. In his new memoir, Fukuyama\u2019s lens turns inward for the first time, tracing his evolution from a young student in the orbit of conservative intellectual legend Allan Bloom to his years in the halls of power in Washington, DC. Opening up about his Japanese American family history, including his relatives\u2019 internment during World War II, he reflects with unusual candor on the experiences that changed his thinking \u2014 including his public break with neoconservatism over the Iraq War. In a wide-ranging and reflective conversation with author and political scientist Shadi Hamid, hear Fukuyama discuss how his ideas were transformed by his lived experience and how the crises of the 21st century have altered his understanding of democracy\u2019s future. Expect a return to the concepts central to Fukuyama\u2019s work \u2014 the qualities that define human nature, the value of democratic institutions, and his controversial theory of the \u201cLast Man\u201d at the end of history \u2014 a rare encounter with a major thinker measuring his own life against the convulsions of history. ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"